This post will show you the best easy Christmas desserts.
Christmas is the best time to treat yourself and have foods you don’t usually have.
You don’t have to worry about calories because during the festive time, it’s all about having the best food.
Desserts are most people’s weakness and for a good reason.
There are so many great Christmas dessert ideas out there that everyone will love.
I have gathered some of the tastiest desserts that you will absolutely love.
They are easy to make but will still impress your guests.
The best easy Christmas desserts
1. Oreo Christmas Balls
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These Oreo christmas balls are very easy to make and only require three main ingredients.
To make these you will need a packet of oreo cookies, cream cheese and almond bark for coating.
For decorating you will need christmas sprinkles and red and green candy melts.
2. Melted Snowman Brownies
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These melted snowman brownies are the cutest idea ever.
To make the brownies you will need butter, eggs, sugar, flower and cocoa powder.
For the icing you will need egg white, sugar and lemon juice.
To decorate you will need marshmallows and black and orange decorating icing.
3. No-Bake Gingerbread Cheesecake
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No bake desserts are so easy to make while still tasting amazing.
For the crust you will need graham cookie crumb, butter, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon and lemon zest.
The top part requires white chocolate, sour cream, butter, cream cheese and spices.
4. Rice Krispie Christmas Puddings
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These rice krispie balls only take 10 minutes to prep and 30 to chill before you can have them.
For the recipe you will need – chocolate, butter, marshamallows, rice krispies, white sugarpaste and food colouring.
Super easy recipe that still looks adorable.
5. Christmas Crack
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A sweet, salty and crunchy Christmas dessert that only needs a few ingredients.
The recipe requires crackers, butter, brown sugar, chocolate chips and sprinkles.
Prep time is only 10 minutes, the longest part is the resting time which is 2 hours.
6. Reindeer Cupcakes
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These adorable reindeer cupcakes are pretty easy to make and only take 15 minutes to prep.
To make the cupcakes you will need buttermilk, espresso, chocolate chips, cocoa powder, eggs vegetable oil, flour, sugar and baking powder
For the frosting you will need unsalted butter, peanut butter, sugar, heavy cream and chocolate.
7. Christmas Kitchen Sink Cookies
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Christmas desserts are always so creative and tasty.
These cookies only take 15 minutes to prep and 10 to cook.
For the recipe you will need butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and soda.
For the extra topping you will need M&Ms, white chocolate chips, pretzels, potato chip pieces and red and green jimmies.
8. Reindeer Macarons
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Macarons are one of the best dessert and you must make a Christmas version.
These reindeer Christmas macarons are made using sugar, almond flour, egg whites, vanilla extract and food colouring.
For the filling you will need salted butter, powdered sugar, heavy whipping cream and cocoa powder.
For the icing that is used to decorate you will need powdered sugar, meringue powder and food colouring.
9. Salted Peanut Butter Christmas Tress
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What’s more festive than Christmas tree desserts?
There Christmas trees take less than an hour and are sure to impress your guests.
For the base you will need sugar, corn syrup, peanut butter, pretzels, oats, crispy rice cereal.
Topping will require chocolate chips and peanut butter.
For the decoration you will need powdered sugar, milk, greeen food colouring and sprinkles.
10. Christmas Pudding Cookies
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These adorable Christmas pudding cookies look amazing and only take 20 minutes to prep and cook.
You will need butter, sugar, eggs, cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, powder and chocolate chips.
11. Raspberry Linzer Cookies
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These might be the prettiest cookies I have ever seen and they take less than an hour to make.
For the recipe you will need butter, icing sugar, flour and raspberry jam.
You will also need a Christmas tree cookie cutter.
12. Chocolate Peppermint Covered Pretzels
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This is such a creative dessert idea that it pretty easy to do.
You will need pretzels of course.
For the coating you will need chocolate, coconut oil, peppermint extract and peppermint candies.
13. Christmas Tree Cupcakes
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Cupcakes are crowd pleasers so why not make them festive?
This recipe requires vegetable oil, sour cream, heavy cream, eggs, chocolate cake mix, cocoa powder and espresso powder.
For the frosting you will need butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, heavy cream, salt and green food colouring.
14. No-Bake White Chocolate Cheesecake With Mulled Wine Fruit
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These adorable cheesecakes in a mug are sure to be the star this Christmas.
They don’t require to bakes and are pretty easy to make.
You will need butter, white chocolate, cream cheese, powdered sugar, heavy cream and orange.
For the mulled wine fruit you will need berries, red wine and sugar.
15. Christmas Donuts
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Donuts are one of those desserts that everyone absolutely loves.
Creating Christmas themed donuts will surely impress all your friends and family.
This recipe requires flour, baking soda, salt, butter, vanilla and milk.
For the glaze you will need sugar, milk, vanilla and cocoa powder.
16. Santa Hat Brownies
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These santa hat brownies are one of the cutest Christmas desserts I have seen.
To make the brownies you will need – sugar, flour, eggs, vegetable oil and chocolate.
You will also need vanilla frosting and strawberries for the santa hat.
17. Christmas Lights Cookies
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Christmas lights cookies is something that everyone needs to make this holiday season
They are easy to make and only take 12 minutes to cook.
For the recipe you will need flour butter, sugar, eggs as well as icing for decorating and M&Ms.
18. Nutella Christmas Tree
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Nutella tastes amazing and goes with everything.
This recipe is increadibly easy but there are no doubts that it will be delicious
For this recipe you will only need puff pastry, Nutella, egg and powdered sugar.
Yes that’s it!
With only 4 ingredients this mights be easiest Christmas dessert you’ve ever made.
19. Cool Whip Candy
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Is it really Christmas if you don’t have candy?
These candies are pretty easy to make and taste delicious.
For the recipe you will need milk chocolate morsels, cool whip and Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers.
Prep time is 20 minutes and cooking is 2.
20. Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies
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These chocolate thumbprint cookies are a definite staple for the festive season.
They take only 15 minutes to prep and 10 to cook.
The recipe requires flour, cocoa powder, butter, sugar, eggs, salt and baking powder.
For the chocolate ganache you will need chocolate chips, heavy whipping cream and sprinkles to put on top.
21. Chocolate Yule Log
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Chocolate Yule log is one of those recipes that you just have to do every Christmas.
It is one of the more technical recipes on here that takes longer but trust me, it will be worth it.
For the cake you will need – flour, cocoa powder, eggs, sugar, sour cream, butter, vanilla, baking powder and salt.
For the cream filling you will need heavy whipping cream, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, salt and mascarpone cheese.
22. Sugar Cookie Truffles
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These sugar cookie recipe is the perfect Christmas desserts idea.
It only takes 15 minutes to prep and freeze making the total half an hour.
The recipe requires 2 cups sugar cookies, cream cheese, melting wafers and red and green sprinkles.
23. Edible Chocolate Pinecones
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These chocolate pinecones look so realistic that I can’t even believe they aren’t real.
They only take 20 minutes to prep and have 0 cooking time.
This recipe needs Chocolate Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Wheat Pretzel Twists, Peanut butter, Nutella, salted butter, vanilla extract and powdered sugar
24. Chewy Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
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These soft and chewy chocolate crinkle cookies are so delicious and easy to make.
The ingredients you will need are cocoa powder, flour, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking powder and powdered sugar.
Prep time is 15 minutes and cook time is 30 minutes.
25. Gingerbread Trifle
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Last but not least, this gingerbread trifle will surely awe your guests this Christmas.
The best news is that it only take 20 minutes all together.
The recipe requires vanilla custard, biscoff spread, gingerbreak cake, caramel sauce and gingerbread syrup
This post showed you the best easy Christmas desserts.
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